Archive for 'Exploration'

Next is Now, is a nice little video produced by Rogers Communications in Canada and does a great job of illustrating some of the mind boggling statistics of social media, communications and the way we are changing as a society.

The face of wine has changed dramatically over the past 10 or so years. Innovative designs, thought provoking ideas & an overall visual aesthetic that makes the trip to the wine market more like a cultured art gallery tour.

We’ve all been affected in one way or another by the recession going on. The Government of Canada offers up their advice to keeping your head above water and marketing you business during this unstable time.

When it comes to the art of humor in advertising its the ones that really make us laugh seem to make the biggest impression. We all need a good laugh now and again so here’s a few of our favs. Enjoy.

Over the past 5 years there’s been a stir in the way we look at communicating. Social Media has exploded and changed the very fabric of how the world is interacting, exploring and making decisions.

Trend Hunter Research released this Top 10 Trends of 2010 video as a prelude to their massive report that surveyed over 64,000 crowdsourced ideas and 145,000,000 views of data to identify emerging patterns.

As long as I can remember Calgary has been stereotyped as a city built on the idea of business first and everything else second. But over the last five years it’s underbelly of arts, fashion and music have sprouted and Calgary’s stigma is slowly changing.

For over 20,000 years, humans have recorded their thoughts and experiences through written communication developed by cave drawings, pictograms, ideograms and phonograms.

Here’s an interesting article from Juxtapoz Magazine on Sam Flores; One of our favorite artist out of San Fransisco, Enjoy!
Words and photos by Trina Calderon

Ever wonder where great advertising ideas come from? It’s not a simple one step process by any means. Chicago artist Lunchbreath lays it all down and shows us exactly how it’s done.

The world of Twitter has blown up and as much as we never really thought we’d find ourselves signing up to the twitter frenzy, what can we say.…we did.

Objectified is a feature-length documentary about our relationship to manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadget

Trying to understand the creative mind can be a trying and difficult thing for the left brained portion of the population. Believe it or not, but it can pose as large a dilemma for us creatives as well. The influx of scattered ideas. The fumbling attempts to translate our thoughts to verbally smooth and understandable […]